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Uh, black cat.

How could the black cat open her mouth to answer P03's question, she yawned, glanced at us curiously, and jumped back into the darkness behind her.

"Hmm... She came with me for no particular purpose. "I looked at the black cat, and then at P03.

"Is that so?" P03. Since P03's "expression" is very stick figure, it looks very "dramatic", and it is difficult for me to discern its thoughts through its expressions and statements.

It can only be said that smart machines are smart machines after all, and there is still a big difference between them and human body language.

The Lighthouse Boy and I had a brief discussion with P03 and decided to explore the ruins together for now.

According to P03, it was from another small den-yin temple. It was temporarily staying in a small electric sound temple, and suddenly there was a strange movement, and it found that a deep rift had appeared in front of the small electric sound temple, extending from the front of the small electric sound temple to the distance.

The Buddha master of the small electric sound temple wondered if there was some ancient Buddha apparition, and he detected a faint signal in the depths of the rift, so he decided to send the walker P03, who happened to be passing by, to go down to the rift to see what was going on.

Since P03's temporary residence is at the end of the rift, the Lower Rift is much easier than me and the lighthouse boy, and with his intelligent body...... So in fact, it was the small electric sound temple that used construction machinery to put it down from the cliff.

The real name is envious, although I don't know what my real name is yet.

P03 entered the rift and soon discovered an anomaly at the bottom of the rift, leading to the discovery of the buried structure. As a robot, P03 has quite a few ways to get into it, such as digging a hole directly through the cutting equipment sponsored by the small electric sound temple. Compared to us, P03 is not too easy.

Upon entering, P03 found that it was an empty room in total darkness - but the darkness was for us humans, and for the robots, the signal shielding was "darkness". Most of them are able to get a sense of their surroundings by emitting some kind of wave or something that bounces back when it touches an object, not to mention that they may have the ability to emit light themselves.

Although the thick metal walls seem to have some signal shielding effect, the Buddhist technology is strong after all, and the P03 has been gone for a long time, and it can still maintain real-time communication with the small electronic sound temple.

P03 walked out of the empty room and found himself in this metal hallway. It thought for a moment and chose the direction of the rift to explore, and then came across us.

As far as P03 can see, there are no special gains along the way, and some rooms can occasionally be detected behind the metal walls on either side, but they are mostly empty and nothing. Occasionally, life reactions will be detected in certain rooms, and P03 will later discover that rats have bitten open the corners of walls and burrowed into them.

"So, this building under this rift valley was opened by rat bites and drilled by instruments, but the factors that led to the formation of the rift did not cause it even the slightest damage?" When I heard this, I felt that I had found a commotion.

However, it is not impossible, after all, Buddhism has strong scientific and technological strength, and the rat is suspected to be the original source realm biochemical technology creation. Or maybe one of the factors that caused the rift was to deliberately avoid harming the underground structures......

But that's not the point, it's just what's in the ruins.

"Where we are now, probably near the middle of the rift valley. According to the signal inference, there is a signal source not far ahead, at least a signal transmitting device. P03 said as he walked. Of course, there is a certain possibility that it is another intelligent machine...... I tried to communicate with it, though, but received no response, presumably some instrument that was still barely functioning at the site. ”

"I see." Seeing that the lighthouse boy looked thoughtful and didn't take over the conversation, I casually responded.

However, this situation is quite familiar, a few times before entering the source realm, when I was exploring the buildings inside, I also found that the building was "surrounded by four walls", and there was nothing in it. Now it's reasonable to say that the site of the Dengyuan site is also a large empty room.

Once raw and twice cooked, this is the third or fourth time, and I don't think there is any problem at all.

Halfway through, please open the metal door of the room you pass by, so that we can take a look. P03 didn't shirk it, and used a knife-like tool to easily cut through the not-so-thin metal door and let us go in and take a look.

There is indeed nothing, and there are smooth metal walls on all sides. This is different from the empty buildings in the Source Realm before, those empty buildings are even the body of the building is war-damaged.

So he continued to move forward.

But what I didn't expect was that our group walked from late at night to late the next night before we could get to the "signal source" mentioned by P03.

"......" I held the box with a little twitching hand, and said with some doubt and trembling in doubt, "Didn't you say...... 'There's a signal source not far ahead'......"

"yes, yes." P03 seemed to show a "disdainful" expression: "It's really a short distance." ”

I took a deep breath. Indeed, the horizontal and vertical journey is only a day's journey, which cannot be regarded as long......

It occurred to me that P03's previous expression was "I met us a little after going down the rift", and the distance during this period was probably from one end of the rift to the middle of the rift. I don't know how fast P03 moves when he is alone, but for such a long distance, it can be described as "a while...... It can only be said that in the eyes of intelligent machinery, this road is indeed not a road.

Good gas.

Finally, in the dark, we came to a place that was different from the previous monotonous corridor.

I didn't hold the black cat in my arms along the way, but I wasn't worried about her being left behind, because I could faintly hear her pads on the metal floor in the dark. Although the voice is very subtle, I can still recognize this detail after living with her for so long.

P03 thoughtfully concocted a lighting installation to illuminate the space in front of us. Looking through the small doorway at the end of the corridor ahead, you can see behind it a magnificent and wide-ranging ...... Metal Hall.

My first impression when I stepped into it was ...... What a weird interior layout.

Probably because all the objects made of non-"exotic metals" have been decayed by the passage of time for some reason, the furnishings in this hall make it completely unclear what the purpose of the hall is.

There seemed to be windows on both sides of the wall, but at this time it was bet on, and you could still see earth and rocks outside. Rows of low seats are placed in the middle, and there are no tables. Because it's so neatly arranged, I can probably send out some kind of crop that grows out of the metal layer, whether it's grown artificially or not. It is impossible for something to grow in the ground so neatly.

There seemed to be a strange contraption hanging on the wall near the door - what seemed to be a display, or rather the one it was exposed to was a display. However, it is not working at this time, it is dark. P03 states that the device appears to be one of the receivers of the signal in the ruins, but that it is no longer functional.

P03 was going to take it down and study it first - I happened to sleep with the lighthouse boy, and to exaggerate, he and I hadn't slept for almost two days.

Lying on the rows of metal seats, I didn't even want to take out the quilt, and fell asleep groggily.

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